Home » Wise Wise 1 The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. Victor Hugo Man, Wise, Wise Man Add to Collection 2 It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo Life, Wise, People Add to Collection 3 The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. William Wordsworth Age, Wise, mind Add to Collection 4 The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James Wisdom, Art, Wise Add to Collection 5 If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. William Butler Yeats Wisdom, Wise, Suffering Add to Collection 6 Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats Wise, Man, Language Add to Collection 7 If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. William Blake Wise, Fool, Become Add to Collection 8 The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. William Blake Wise, Fool Add to Collection 9 A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake Tree, Wise, Man Add to Collection 10 We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Arthur Ward Wise, Words, Learn Add to Collection 11 It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. William Arthur Ward Wise, Anger, Focus Add to Collection 12 Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. William Arthur Ward Business, Wise, Learn Add to Collection 13 Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. William Arthur Ward Time, Wise, Test Add to Collection 14 Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. Isaac Asimov Learning, Knowledge, Wise Add to Collection 15 The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Walt Whitman Wise, Man, Law Add to Collection 16 The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. Arthur Schopenhauer Wise, Done, Fools Add to Collection 17 Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Oscar Wilde Wise, People, Well Add to Collection 18 Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. William Shakespeare Wise, Doubt, Beacon Add to Collection 19 It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare Father, Wise, Child Add to Collection 20 Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. William Shakespeare Adversity, Wise, Man Add to Collection 21 A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare Wise, Man, Fool Add to Collection 22 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein God, Wise, Equality Add to Collection 23 When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. Winston Churchill War, Wise, Winning Add to Collection 24 It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill Future, Wise, Look Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »